Yes, yes it is!
― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Thursday, 2 February 2012 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
I want to know what kind of reverb she uses, or if she just records everything inside the dreaming spire of an ornate medieval cathedral made entirely from ice crystals and unicorn horn?
― Drexciya's Midnight Runners (Wheal Dream), Thursday, 2 February 2012 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABzkVhqGDIY
^ You can peak at some of her set-up here
― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Thursday, 2 February 2012 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
also bonus points for Sting - Bring On The Night t-shirt
― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Thursday, 2 February 2012 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
I love how GarageBand has become, like, the new 4-track for the generation below mine. All those bedroom weirdoes who used to record 4AD style baroque stuff in their bedrooms on wonky old Yamaha MT100-IIs are now doing the same thing in GarageBand, there's something reassuring about that, the technology gets better but the bedroom innovation stays the same.
― Drexciya's Midnight Runners (Wheal Dream), Friday, 3 February 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
It also makes sense that she learned to sing in a church auditorium - that completely makes sense with the kind of reverb that she uses.
LOL @ Greenpoint, though. I think I've walked past that block when I used to live near there, but perhaps most of that part of Brooklyn looks alike.
― Drexciya's Midnight Runners (Wheal Dream), Friday, 3 February 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
good old sp404. looks like she's just using it for effects? it does have a surprisingly nice reverb.
is 'prizewinning' the only song with drums on the record?
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Friday, 3 February 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
could be wrong, but i think so. certainly the most overt use of drums is on that one song
― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
Vow does a similar trick of introducing another instrument halfway through when that (upright?) bass comes in
― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
It's shit like this that makes me wish I hadn't sold my Boss RC pedal :-( :-(
― Sounds Of The Baskervilles (dog latin), Friday, 3 February 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
omg this album
it's like sitting on your own in a deserted cathedral and hearing a choir practice in the distance, with added strange effects
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Friday, 3 February 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
so devotional and rapt
Yes! The devotional aspect spot on. Every time I hear it, it completely captivates me.
― Drexciya's Midnight Runners (Wheal Dream), Friday, 3 February 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
needs more rhythm
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Friday, 3 February 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Nah I like that it's SAW II not SAW85-92. Rhythm would be a distraction.
― Drexciya's Midnight Runners (Wheal Dream), Friday, 3 February 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
oh hey: http://juliannabarwick.bandcamp.com/album/matrimony-remixes
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Friday, 3 February 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
diplo :((((((((((((((((((((((((
― RYVITA® (Lamp), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
yeah uh no
― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I don't know about those remixes, at all. Especially Prizewinning, which is just such a devastatingly amazing tune, really felt like - why bother? I guess based on Prizewinning, I wouldn't mind if she added more drums to her work. But the beats on those remixes just seem really grafted on in an unnecessary way.
― Drexciya's Midnight Runners (Wheal Dream), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
diplol
(of course he has a co-producer)
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think any other music this year has put such vivid images in my head. Sorry if this sounds really corny but mostly I picture cold rural meadows early in the morning with the sun breaking through the mist,or there's other songs where it sounds like the voices of ghosts on top the mountains with the wind just whistling over the boulders and through the shredded prayer flags, and then there's those parts where the voices keep rolling on and on like waves breaking just off the beach, and then again there's that whole african choral vibe and I dunno - it's good music for just letting your mind wander around in and I kind of think that too many beats would distract from that.
― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
This is a nice performance btw though not much of a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY3pg1hQ7Xs
― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
One thing that the album reminds me of a bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VozZoFLsQQI
― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
I think what I was trying to get at with my gibbering is that for such bedroom music, it really evokes big wide open spaces.
― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
I was saying more, "made in a bedroom" rather than "it sounds like a bedroom" - because it really doesn't sound like a bedroom. It's that immense reverb that gives it that sweeping sense of space, cathedrals, halls, echoing mountaintops. It's weird seeing her making music in such a tiny enclosed room, because it sounds so designed for huge, sweeping spaces.
― Drexciya's Midnight Runners (Wheal Dream), Friday, 3 February 2012 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah, I wasn't disagreeing with you at all.
― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
Seeing her do her thing live is incredible: like, it's not just a triumph of craft but a triumph of vision, her ability to harmonise with and work loops based on her own voice, to make something that sounds so fully-formed and evocative and rich.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
Beautiful. Had it in all last night while cooking a fish curry. Just purely wonderful.
― Sounds Of The Baskervilles (dog latin), Saturday, 4 February 2012 10:54 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone else enjoying the Ombre album? "A modern avant pop masterpiece" says your man in The Wire, probably an overstatement but it is very pretty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EMSW5fPDpI
― atari era stylings of (seandalai), Friday, 14 September 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
She released a new song! Don't know how to embed yet so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFBXBfx7o5c
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 8 February 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
Good stuff
― monster_xero, Sunday, 10 February 2013 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
This is nice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTuxswB_Rew
New album out soon...going to see her in London on Tuesday, will hopefully be a good time.
― high inerja (seandalai), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
Live show was amazing last time around - managed to make a dingy little basement bar sound like a cathedral.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
She's so good live. Just beautiful
― sonderborg, Thursday, 13 June 2013 06:34 (ten years ago) link
coming to chicago in sept!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 13 June 2013 12:54 (ten years ago) link
Anyone interested in going to the London show on Tuesday? I might have a spare ticket or two.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Thursday, 13 June 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link
holy heck, that new song is beautiful. i don't know what is is about those voices singing the high notes but they seemed pitched specifically to set off my blub reflex
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Thursday, 13 June 2013 13:05 (ten years ago) link
ach, that music is to my lachrymal glands what limes are to my saliva ducts. anyway, well done on making an old man cry. good job
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Thursday, 13 June 2013 13:16 (ten years ago) link
aiiee, patten is the support act in london, which seems like a weird one but fuck, i do love patten
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Thursday, 13 June 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
dog latin, are you going to this yourself? FAP?
― high inerja (seandalai), Sunday, 16 June 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link
yeah i'm def going - won tickets through work but don't have anyone who can make it so would be good to meet up.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Sunday, 16 June 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
Cool - maybe I can ILXmail you to arrange something?
― high inerja (seandalai), Monday, 17 June 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
yeah dog latin at gee mail dot com
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Monday, 17 June 2013 15:21 (ten years ago) link
Really enjoyed this! Also fun to meet up with a dog latin.
Someone has put the whole show up on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wty4q9xerzI
― high inerja (seandalai), Thursday, 20 June 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
Oh cool. Yeah, nice to meet you seandalai - I'll let you know if ever I'm in Cambridge.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:01 (ten years ago) link
new album is pretty lovely
― monotony, Thursday, 27 June 2013 10:17 (ten years ago) link
this is one is pretty specialhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_4SejXgvCc
― Number None, Saturday, 29 June 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
saw her open for the flaming lips, here in new jersey. she was great, but the crowd were really disrespectful and there were some sound issues at the start. but apart from that, she was amazing.
super fast shipping. would do business with again a+++
― BringTheAuBonPain, Saturday, 29 June 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
The Magic Place > Nepenthe. "Pyrrhic" is... interesting. The rest is really good though.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 1 July 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/04/207297220/first-listen-julianna-barwick-nepenthe
― Please review your choices carefully. (seandalai), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
new one sounds like julianna barwick
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 22 August 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
Nepenthe is truly fantastic.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
Heard it once, another ravishing listen imo.
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
Listened last night, liked. Don't really remember much about it cause of insomnia pain & booze but it made enough of an impression that it'll go into rotation.
― rooibos in disguise (wins), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
ja this is good
― Henry Charles Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Br (seandalai), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
Kinda surprised there isn't more talk about it.
The last ~minute or so of "The Harbinger" is so beautiful that it basically makes me never want to listen to music again.
― john. a resident of chicago., Wednesday, 28 August 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
The cat noises in Pyrrhic, though.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
>Kinda surprised there isn't more talk about it.
me too. Beautiful album.
But Florine definitely won me.
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 15 December 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
Saw her live at the Southbank Centre a few months ago, and I was quite surprised by how laid-back and friendly and, well, goofy she was! Because her music suggests some shy, ethereal being, but she was funny and warm. Lex told me she had a new album out this year, but I still haven't managed to hear it; must make more of an effort to.
― Branwell Bell, Sunday, 15 December 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
She seemed goofy (in a good way) in this interview too http://www.popmatters.com/feature/175284-unknown-discoveries-an-interview-with-julianna-barwick/
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 15 December 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
love her & nepenthe. easily one of my 2013 favorites (though, yeah, i still prefer the magic placce). perhaps the absence of discussion is due to the abstract nature of her music. we mention the evocative beauty in general terms, but everything past that is personal, inchoate.
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Sunday, 15 December 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link
Enya??
― death and darkness and other night kinda shit (crüt), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
more like Julianna Beerwick
http://www.dogfish.com/community/blogfish/members/justin-williams/dogfish-collaborates-with-musician-julianna-barwick-to-celebrate-completion-of-18-monhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXnB6zzXLKw
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Monday, 2 June 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
new one is really good, definitely preferring it to nepenthe. very cocteau twins i think?
― real orgone kid (NickB), Friday, 6 May 2016 23:11 (seven years ago) link
Nobody is ever going to be surprised by a Julianna Barwick album but this is pretty sweet on a first listen
― tay.ai fan (seandalai), Friday, 6 May 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
I wasn't feeling this one as much. Obviously she uses technology to make her music but this one doesn't feel as organic or natural as the last two. Still an 8/10 and probably better than a lot of stuff I'll hear this year
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 8 May 2016 07:38 (seven years ago) link
New one has beautiful moments. And I think it can grow on me more
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 02:55 (seven years ago) link
it's obviously got a lot less of the earthy folk vibe, but i think it's quite reminiscent of the le mystere des voix bulgares records
― real orgone kid (NickB), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 11:01 (seven years ago) link
I've not really engaged much with her before but the new one is amazing.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 29 May 2016 09:52 (seven years ago) link
New one's pretty great. After having my hopes raised by the return of the Magic Place font.
― geoffreyess, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 13:02 (three years ago) link
God, this is gorgeous stuff. "Oh, Memory" with Mary Lattimore's harp and the strings on "Safe" are particularly sublime. The title track, too, is one to get lost in.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
Today I learned that Ninja Tune still exists.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
I've been deeply enjoying this new one
― winters (josh), Saturday, 18 July 2020 05:13 (three years ago) link
some parts of this are as lovely as ever but it has a widescreen cinematic quality that does a lot less for me. Listening to The Magic Place felt like stumbling into something intimate and private despite its gargantuan sound, whereas a lot of this just sounds like big soundtrack music
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 18 July 2020 07:15 (three years ago) link
The first three songs on Healing Is a Miracle have stayed with me all year. They will pop up on random playlists and everything around me just shuts down. I particularly love the mix of light and heavy textures on this one. The bass can be enveloping.
― Indexed, Monday, 18 January 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link
and what's wrong with that
the album is nice and I really needed it last year
― Left, Monday, 18 January 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
and probably this year
― Left, Monday, 18 January 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
yeah, this was a major record for me last year -- definitely a top favorite
― winters (josh), Monday, 18 January 2021 19:05 (three years ago) link
I always enjoy a new album, but to be honest it gets hard to tell them apart.
Turns out that what I really needed was JB + ~~~~flute vibes~~~~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APlC8ldtD2s
― timber euros (seandalai), Monday, 18 January 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
The three collaborations on this one (especially Oh Memory w/ Mary Lattimore) + the fulsome lower register made this one stand out from the rest of her catalog for me. Probably still reach for Nepenthe most of the time, though.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
Healing is a Miracle has crept up as probably my favorite record from 2020, as Indexed notes when a track from it comes on the whole world seems to red shift into prehistory. The adjacency to Grouper, so close but also so different, makes me think of the future as a catalog with no gaps.
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Monday, 5 April 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
Somehow I never got around to Healing is a Miracle, or maybe I wasn't paying enough attention for it to resonate with me, but listening to it today it is bowling me over. Magic Place is the one that I hold close to my heart, and the usual Julianna Barwick stuff on Healing is totally on par with that, while the guests and additions add a whole other emotional dimension. Indexed otm re: "the fulsome lower register." I surprised myself with the comparison but when the deep rumbling synth comes in on "Inspirit" it reminds me of when the synths come in on "O Superman" and add a whole array of richer, more foreboding colors to the palette. Great album. I will probably still listen to Magic Place more because it is such mood music to me, and the moods on this one are more diverse. But without giving it too much thought this one is feeling like her best artistic achievement thus far.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 29 October 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link